Schusterman, Zvi

Son of Tzirel (Tzila) and Yehuda, was born on August 5, 1919, in the city of Havna, Russia, and on 22 December 1922 he arrived in Israel with his parents. Gordon and later worked as a plumber and clerk, was one of the best athletes in the Brit Maccabim-Atid group, and one of the first and best in the hockey game, and served as a member of the Haganah during the bloody riots of 1936-1939. During World War II he volunteered with his comrades in the British Air Force and during his six years of service he served in air force positions, parachutes, chauffeur, and more – from Egypt through North Africa, Malta, Sicily to the end of the war in Italy. He was the best team of the Royal Air Force, and when he was discharged from the army in 1946, he began working with his brother, Bismuth, and when the War of Independence broke out, he volunteered among the first members of the Israel Air Force and served as a responsible weapon at the Tel Aviv airport. On May 1, 1948, a plane was sent from Tel Aviv to bomb the village of Beit Mahsir, which the Arabs had stubbornly held and had to be removed from there in order to open the road to Jerusalem. In this plane, which fell and crashed in the Judean Hills, near Abu Ghosh – Kiryat Anavim due to a mishap, Zvi also took off and died with his friends. On September 19, 1948, he was laid to rest at the military cemetery in Kiryat Anavim.